Kennedy Experience – Owen

Owen

Iain’s pretty much got it covered.  If you’re thinking about getting famous, my only advice woud be to prepare for the attention.  We, a group of young people from central Scotland, are not famous – and yet we felt more than welcome by all the children at the Kennedy School.  We did our usual – teaching some Scottish words to the kids that could speak English (most of them – but not the reeeaaally young ones!) with words like “aye”, “gid” and “mullet” *Iain grabs my hair and points* nmyeeeh!

As we moved from class to class – which weren’t entirely separate from each other, some kids from the previous classes would follow, until we were crowded with half the school, wanting to ask questions, get autographs, hugs, handshakes, etc.  I found myself enclosed against a wall with the camera above my head, guarding it with my life! 

But I’ve skipped way ahead of myself… so let’s back it up, folks!

Before we even arrived at Destination Kennedy, we once again experienced another young local tapping on our bus windows, begging for food.  Considering we had no food to give, it’s truly difficult to ignore that someone is begging in desperation for his or her life.  And at that, all we could do was ignore her.  Not fun.

Anyways… upon arriving at the school we were greeted with the school band, consisting of drummers and some kids that had horns – like trumpets that could only produce one note!  Was mighty impressive though.  As was the word “welcome” laid out in rose petals – the same ones they showered us with as we entered the school.

Before visiting the classrooms, we sat on a small stage in front of the entire school, and were entertained with dancing, kung fu and front flips (one of them fell flat on his back – and it looked sore as………..!)